Microcaris minuta

No picture of Microcaris minuta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microcaris minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrocarisPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Thylacocephala
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Thylacocephala
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Thylacocephala
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Thylacocephala

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 215.38 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 211.18 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic245–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243.43 Mya215.38 Mya245.1 Mya210.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Microcaris minuta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

3 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

3 formations

Dolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.86°EStrelovec — 46.33°N, 14.59°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°E

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The named rock units Microcaris minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Microcaris minuta and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Microcaris minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Microcaris minuta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Microcaris minuta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microcaris minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microcaris minuta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMicrocaris through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pinna 1974